I was so hyped for this book after reading A Family Affair. Unfortunately, I was totally disappointed by it. The characters and plot feel totally hollow. There is absolutely no character development. The MCs never find out anything about each other, nor do we find out anything about them, except a couple of times they mention they like reading books? But that never seems important to each. Their feelings about each other never change from the first moment they meet, other than at some point they decide to say they love each other.

They sleep with each other, then there’s a whole load of dumb band drama that keeps them apart, then they get together again without anything between them having changed, and then it ends. At the start, Cleo idol worships Lana, and Lana thinks Cleo is charismatic, sings well, and reminds her of her younger self. By the final sex scene, Cleo is thinking “wow I’m having sex with my idol, Lana fucking Lynch!” And Lana is thinking “Cleo is a very charismatic rock star, and she kind of reminds me of me when I was younger, and also a bit of my dead wife. Also she’s way too young for me.”

How exactly is this the basis for any healthy relationship, let along an HEA that will supposedly last for ever??? By far my least favourite Harper Bliss book.